A Height Data Smoothing Mechanism

Abstract

A description is given of a height data smoothing mechanism, illustrated by a schematic diagram. The discontinuous height data is fed into the input shaft at intervals. This drives a differential, connected also to the ball carriage and roller of an integrator whose disk is turned by a constant speed motor. A correcting handwheel and the integrator feed another differential whose output of the device. The output and the input of the machine are compared through a differential feeding dial, and the operator is supposed to turn the handwheel in such a way that the positive and negative oscillations of the dial about zero are equal.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
May 26, 1941
Accession Number
ADB810963

Entities

People

  • Claude E. Shannon

Organizations

  • Princeton University

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DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Carriages
  • Computers
  • Continuity
  • Diagrams
  • Integrals
  • Integrators
  • Interpolation
  • Intervals
  • Munitions
  • Oscillation
  • Schematic Diagrams
  • Scientific Research
  • Steady State

Fields of Study

  • Mathematics

Readers

  • Atmospheric Science / Meteorology, specifically Wind Wave Turbulence.
  • Electrical Engineering
  • Finite Element Method (FEM) for solving Partial Differential Equations (PDEs)